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Unit 10 Pleasure comes through toil. 苦尽甘来。 学习内容 题 材 词 数 建议时间 得分统计 做题备忘 Part A Text 1 商业经济 478 /10 Text 2 科普知识 498 /10 Text 3 生态环境 417 /10 Text 4 社会生活 438 /10 Part B 商业经济 550 /10 Part C 科普知识 379 /10 Part A Directions：Read the following texts. Answer the questions blow each text by choosing [A],[B],[C] or [D]. Text 1 Ash Upadhyaya is no tree hugger. Yet he has spent the past two years studying environmentally sustainable business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Am I really driven to do this by my values? The honest answer is no,” says Upadhyaya, who wants to work for a private-equity fund when he graduates in June. “It just makes good business sense to be sustainable.” Environmentalists and capitalists have typically eyed each other with suspicion, even disdain. A new breed of M.B.A. students thinks it’s possible to make a bunch of green by going green. For some, studying sustainable business practices just gives them a competitive edge. For others, it’s a fresh way of thinking about business. These eco-M. B. A. s talk about the “triple bottom line” —people, planet, profit. Thousands are joining Net Impact, a networking group for business leaders interested in societal problems. Slowly, business schools are catching up. “This is all student -driven,” says Stanford B -school professor Erica Plambeck. Seven years ago she offered the first environmental elective at the business school. Today Stanford ranks No. 1 on the Aspen Institute’s 2007 “Beyond Grey P